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alon.  or  tha  back  covar  whan  appropriata.  Ail 
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or  iiiustratad  impraasion. 


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alMli  contain  tha  symbol  — »-  (moaning  "CON- 
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whichavar  appiias. 


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da  ia  nattat*  da  i'axampiaira  filmA,  at  an 
conformity  avac  las  conditions  du  contrat  da 
filmaga. 

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papiar  ast  imprimis  sont  fiimAs  an  commandant 
par  ia  pramiar  plat  at  an  tarminant  soit  par  la 
darnlAra  paga  qui  comporta  una  amprainta 
d'imprassion  ou  d'iilustration,  soit  par  la  sacond 
plat,  saion  ia  cas.  Tous  las  autras  axampiairas 
originaux  sont  filmte  an  commandant  par  ia 
pramlAra  paga  qui  comporta  una  amprainta 
d'imprassion  ou  d'iilustration  at  an  tarminant  par 
ia  darniira  paga  qui  comporta  una  talia 
amprainta. 

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darniAra  imaga  da  chaqua  microficha,  saion  la 
cas:  la  symbols  -^  signifio  "A  SUIVRE".  la 
symbols  V  signifia  "FIN". 


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diffarant  raduction  ratios.  Thosa  too  iarga  to  ba 
antiraly  includad  in  ona  axposura  ara  filmad 
baginning  in  tlia  uppar  laft  hand  corner,  laft  to 
right  and  top  to  bottom,  as  many  framas  as 
raquirad.  Tha  following  diagrams  iilustrata  tha 
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da  i'angia  supArieur  gauche,  de  gauche  A  droite, 
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ADDRESS. 

TO  Richard  E.  Lee,  Efq.  Mayor  of  the 
borough  of  Norfolk,  Virginia^  and  all  other  the 
Citizens  of  the  United  States  of  America,  who 
are  influenced  by  the  genuine  principles  of  Anno 
1775  &  'yS, — and  more  particularly  the  citizens 
of  Norfolk^  Port/mouthy  and  its  vicinity,  who  aflem- 
bled  in  June,  1807,  in  order  to  take  efBcient 
meafures  of  defence  at  this  all  important  crifis. 

Rejpefied  Friends  tff  Feflonv- Citizen j  /— 

A  fuperficial  genius,  it  appears  to  me  mud  readilf 
allow,  that  it  is  fo  ordered  in  Providencct  that  we  live  in  a 
^ay,  pregnant  with  the  mod  interefting  events  ;  and  that  it 
^ill  6inaUy  terminate  in  favour  of  the  great  family  of  man* 
kind*  there  has  not  been  a  (hadow  of  a  doubt  in  my  mind  for 
many  years  paft.  It  is  a  well  known  maxim  with  the  great 
bulk  of  the  enlightened,-^remove  the  caufe,  and  the  effeA 
of  courfe  ceafes. 

The  late  outrageous  attack  of  the  Britifli  fhip  of  watt  the 
Leopard,  on  the  United  States  (hip  of  war,  the  Chefapeake, 
in  which  the  dignity  and  fovereignty  of  the  United  States 
received  for  the  moment  a  wound — in  my  humble  apprehen* 
Hon,  compleatly  fulfills  the  predidlion  of  Meklin,  a  celebrat* 
ed  ancient  Briton*  who  lived  in  the  fifth  century.  After  be* 
ing  in  the  full  belief  that  every  fentiment  would  in  due  tiiT^e 
be  fulfilled,  in  order  n  get  the  opinions  of  my  then  fellow* 
citizens,  I  got  it  inferted  in  the  Oracle  of  the  Pay,  edited  by 
Mr.  Charles  Peirce,  Anno  1 796,— Mr.  Peirce,  at  the  moment, 
feems  to  have  been  influenced  by  the  pureft  of  motives*  in 
order  to  diffufe  light }  and  of  couife  the  typps  then  under  his 
immediate  direiftion,  anfwered  the  purpofes  of  Omnipotence 
in  permitting  their  invention  ;— I  heard  of  its  being  copied 
into  foigj^  of  the  Southern  papers,  but  no  notice  taken  thereof 
that  ever  came  to  my  knowledge.    Soon  after  the  elevation 

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6f  our  prefent  illuftrious  Chief  to  the  PreHdential  Chair,  t  had 
thsm  inferted  in  the  Newhampfhire  Gazette  j  at  prefent  under 
the  diredion  of  two  diftinguiflied  citizens  in  their  Xwi^.-^hui 

\JiHl  had  "0  notice.  lur  advanced  in  life  as  I  am,  I  loclc  back 
with  a  fehfible  pleafare»  that  the  prime  of  life  was  in  Corns 
degree  devoted,  to  help  to  rear  the  independent  flng  of  United 
America.  Language  fails  itie  to  depi^  to  you  how  very  fen-' 
fibly  it  wounded  my  feelings,  when  I  firft  heard  of  the  rccenC 
indignity  offered  it, — and  you  may  be  afTiired,  I  Ihall  be  ontf 
of  the  'aft  tp  defert, — if  need  be.  Having  for  my  own  amufe- 
iftenr,  made  my  remarks  on  the  different  periods,  wherein  it 
flruck  my  mind  in  the  moft  forcible  manner  that  this  lemftika- 
ble  predidlion  was  fulfilled,  I  (hew  it  to  fome  of  my  confi« 
dcntial  friends,  for  their  candid  fentiments,  and  by  whofe  ad-' 
vice  it  is  now  laid  before  the  public  tfibufialj  with  this  requ:(l, 
nbl  to  be  over  hafty  to  receive  or  comkmni  until  it  is  thor- 
oughly invcftigated,  each  one  for  himfclf ; — and  in  orJer  that 
you  might  form  clear  and  juft  conceptions  for  my  comiraj 
ibrwarj  at  the  i»refent  moment, — You  will  peimit  me  to  nn- 
tice,  that  I  am  by  birth  an  Englifhman,  unir.^uenced SLud  unpctt' 

\fi9wi  ; — a  native  oi  Dunfter,  in  the  country  of  Soroerfett ;  as 
my  parents  were,  in  the  ftridlnefs  of  fp;ech  rigid  nonconform- 
ifts,  tliefe  was  early  implanted  in  the  mind,  when  tender,  the 
moft  elevated  ideas  refpedling  religious  and  civil  liberty, 
and  of  cuurfe  a  rooted  enmity  againft  all  ufurped  power  eitl)4r 
in  church  or  ftate.  When  young  I  was  fent  over  to  Neath 
in  GlamoTganfliire  in  fouth  Wales,  for  the  purpofe  of  an  edu- 
cation, and  put  under  the  tuition  of  a  Mr.  Lhviehn,  a  noted 
fchoolmafter,  a  gentleman  well  verfed  in  the  languages,  and 
>»as  in  unifon  with  my  parents,  refpeAing  the  right  of  con- 
fcience  and  citizenfhip  ;  where  1  became  acquainted  with  the 
works  of  Merlim,  and  can  well  remember  of  the  honorable 
mention  made  of  him  by  Mr.  L/envden  and  others.  Early 
in  life  I  was  fent  over  by  my  parents  to  this  country,  to  a 
noted  merchant  of  this  town,  a  fchoolfellow  and  an  intimate 
friend  of  my  father's,*— he  was  a  warm  zealous  friend  to  iha 
liberties  of  mankind  ;  fo  that,  when  the  fatal  moment  for  my 
native  country  took  place,  in  the  commencement  of  hoAili* 
ties,  Anno  1775— 1  was  not  at  a  lofs  to  determine  how  to 
conduA  at  that  rventful  period.  During  the  revolutionarf 
war,  I  rendered  this  country  all  the  fervices  within  the  com* 
pafs  of  my  enfeebled  abilities  ;  at  the  final  iflue,  the  then  fu< 
preme  executive  did  me  that  juttice,  as  to  caufe  the  public 
fcal  of  this  State  to  be  put  en  my  public  cbaraAcr. '  , 

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At  the  prefenl  order  of  things  taking  place,  rthoughfmT- 
fervices  in  xht  prune ^  entitled  ms  to  be  noticed  in  the  decline  of 
life  ;  I  therefore  made  application  to  fome  influential  charac- 
ters in  this  town,  to  no  effi.Siy — owing  I  prefume,  to  ir  .ike  pro- 
vifion  for  their  favorite  dependant).  But  I  am  fo  far  happy 
to  be  pofre/r.d  of  a  mind  fuperior  to  pefft  for  I  do  not  envf 
thetn  their  princely  fortunes,  or  their  favorite  dependants  oi  their 
competency.  I  am  well  aware  that  this  my  prefent  devel* 
opement  of  this  enigma  of  Merlin's  may  dagger  for  a  mo- 
ment the  minds  of  fome,  in  confequence  of  a  confined  idea* 
that  the  fpirit  of  prophecy  has  long  flnce  cealed  with  the 
Apodles  ;  but  probably  not  being  acquainted  with  that  fcience 
of  fciences,  the  fcience  of  Correfpondence,  might  fiill  avail,— 
yet  adir.lciing  I  am  rin>>ular,  I  hold  that  the  one  and  indivi- 
fibb  great  Supreme,  for  reafons  unfathomable  to  our  finite 
undei  (landings,  has,  in  all  ages  of  the  world,  feletfled  inftru- 
inents  and  endowed  them  with  the  fpirit  of  prophecy,  in  or- 
der to  be  communicated  for  the  benefit  of  mankind, — as  well 
likeuife  do  I  make  an  efTential  difference  between  the  fpii it  of 
prophecy,  and  miracles, — the  latter  I  readily  allow,  have 
celled.  It  is  as  firmly  fixt  m  my  mind  as  the  Apalaci'ao 
mountains  are  to  the  centre,  that  i:i  all  ages,  indrumentshave 
been  fele(fled  at  the  hands  of  Omnipotence,  to  bring  abopt  his 
purpofes  in  this  fublnnary  world.  It  is  in  this  point  of  light 
that'I  confi.Jer  the  .(Tembling  of  that  illuHnous  band  of  pat- 
riots, who  aiT.mbled  at  Nor/elk,  rcfpciSling  the  late  tranfadl- 
ions,  between  the  Leopard  and  the  Cbefapeake,  and  the  fpi- 
rited  letter  of  the  Mayor  of  the  borough  of  Norfolk  to  the 
Briiifh  commodore  ; — which  is  the  fole  motive  that  induces 
and  emboldens  me  to  prefix  his  name  to  this  my  prefent  pub- 
lication, without  previdufly  obtaining  his  confent  ;  and  I  in- 
dulj>e  a  hope  it  will  be  confijered  by  him  a  fnfl'icieni  apolo- 
gy therefor.  Devoutly  hoping  that  the  rulers  of  my  native 
country  for  once,  will  be  difpofed  to  take  roeafures  to  prevent, 
an  open  rupture  between  the  two  countries,  and  fix  matter* 
in  future  on  a  durable  bafis  ; — undoubtedly  you  will  join  in 
fcntiments  with  me;  and  after  committing  each  one  to  the 
ail  prore^ing  arm  of  that  BtiNC  that  is  able  to  protedl,  with 
permiliion  I  bee:  le  ive  to  fubfcribe  rryfelf, 

Teur  optrt  and  Injl^xible  friend^ 

JOSEPH  LEIGH. 

Port  [mouthy  Auguji  13,   1807. 


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PRELIMINARY  OBSERVATIONS  ON 
MERLIN'S    PREDICTION, 


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'"THE  LioN^  is  an  emblera  of  Great  Britain, 

'^  and  it  is  well  known  liow  much  fhe  values  herfcif  on  the  prow- 
cri  of  the  tnaftcr  licail  of  the  foreft.—Thc  COCK,  is  an  emblem  of 
Trance  ;  we  frequently  read  of  the  Gallic  Cock, — The  DOVE,  is  an 
finblcm  of  America,  as  is  well  known  amougft  the  learned,  fur  ihrfe 
coj>cnt  reafons ;  Chriftophcr  Columbus  was  the  iirft  difcoverer  of  this 
IvaU  VVcftern  Continent,  and  Columbia  is  fignifirant  of  the  Dove,  and 
\  the  Dove  is  well  known  to  be  an  emblem  of  iunoccnce. 


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When  ihefava^e  is  meek  and  mild. 
The  frantic  mother  Jhalijiab  her  child.* 

[MERLIN.] 

WELL  might  the  royal  Pfalmift  with  an  up- 
lifted mind  exclaim,  Lord  what  is  man,  that  thou 
art  mindful  of  him.  And  in  other  of  his  produc- 
tions, when  under  the  influence  of  the  fpirit  of 
truth,  he  very  readily  and  juftly  acknowledges 
that  the  ways  of  the  Almighty  are  paft  finding 
out,  or  in  other  words,  unfathomable  to  us  the 
muck  worms  of  the  earth,  when  compared  to 
the  Deity. — I  thus  introduce  the  fubjed  with 
thefe  obfervations  to  notice  that  foon  after  the 
chriftian  era,  that  truly  interefting  epoch — that 
the  fuperior  light,  with  which  it  was  ufliered  in, 
foon  began  tp  dwindle,  and  alas  !  man,  fallible 
and  pliant  man,  foon  felt  the  fatal  efFefIs  thereof : 
— It  is  a  very  interefting  adage  to  go  to  the  foun- 
tain head  for  the  pure  water  ; — And  as  long  as 
the  priefts  of  the  altar  aded  up  to  their  original 
inftitutions  in  the  promulgation  of  the  Gofpel  of 
Peace,  and  princes  did  pot  forget  they  were  men, 
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rcfponfible  for  their  anions  to  the  author  of  all 
good, — every  thing  went  well.  But  when  the 
infernal  marriage  betweeo  Church  and  State  took 
place  under  Conftantine  the  great— Jmark  the 
confequence, — the  fummoning  the  counfel  of 
NiCH,  wherein  the  one  and  indivilible  great 
Supreme  was  fplit  in  pieces.— As  it  is  foreign  to 
my  intention  to  give  too  lengthy  a  detail,  luffice 
when  I  fay,  that  it  was  fo  permitted  that  the 
union  of  Church  and  State,  funk  man,  the  nobler 
part  of  the  creation,  into  the  moft  abjed  ftate  of 
llavery,  as  the  hiftory  of  Europe  will  clearly 
evince  : — But  in  the  fulnefs  of  time  it  was  fo  or- 
dered, that  the  invention  of  types  took  place,  and 
it  was  worthy  of  notice,  about  the  time  the  re- 
formation under  Luther^  and  the  fpirit  of  difcov- 
ery  by  the  Portuguife  round  the  Cape  of  Good 
Hope,  anH  the  unexplored  regions  of  the  Weit 
under  Chriftopher  Columbus. 

The  Englifli,  ever  a(5tive,  in  the  rergn  of  Queen 
Elizabeth,  firll  eftablifhed  a  colony  in  that  favor- 
ed fpot  of  heaven  Virginia  ;— which  name  it 
retains  in  confequence  of  her  virgin  ftate.  Her 
fucceflbr  James  the  firft  of  England,  and  fixth  of 
Scotland,  a  haughty,  imperious  and  weak  prince, 
in  whofe  reign  the  unfounded  dodrine  of  non- 
refiftance  and  paflive  obedience  againft  the  Lord's 
anoin  e  1,  was  carried  to  a  high  pitch  by  the  then 
ftatefmen,  and  confirmed  ah  orthodox  doftrine 
from  the  then  haughty  and  imperious  prelates  of 
the  eftablifhed  church,  aiid  the  inferior  order  of 
the  clergy  under  their  controul  ; — however,  a 
chofen  tew  bore  an  honorable  teflimony,  and  by 
way  of  deiifion,  was  firft  honored  with  the  dig- 
nified name  of  Puritans.  His  fucceflbr  Charles 
the  firft,  with  a  laud  in  the  church  toco-operate, 

fo 


^ 


[7.3 

fo  far  from  relaxing,  carried  the  nefarious  doc* 
trine  to  the  higheft  pitch  j — fo  that  the  ftigma- 
tizcd  Puritans  were  under  the  necefllty  to  enii- 
Igrate  to  this  then  howling  wildernefs,and  firll  fct- 
Itled  at  Plymouth  ;  which  by  the  way  of  eminence, 
|I  conlider  to  be  the  mother  of  New-England  ;— 
[and  1  would  wifli  to  indulge  a  hope  at  this  event- 
ful moment,  that  the  fons  of  the  firft  founders  of 
Mymouth  would  walk  ftcadily  in  the  path  fet  be- 
Fore  them   by  their  worthy  prcdcceliors. — It  is- 
^)rihy  of  notice,that,with  the  exception  of  Penn- 
Ifyivania,  whofe  proprietor,  the  great  Wm.  Penn, , 
jthc  firft  founder,  not  confidcring  the  right  of  dif- 
Icovery  on  the  part  of  the.  Europeans  to  be  a  fuf- 
ficient  ground  for  him  to  fettle  the  lands  of  the- 
Aborigines  without  their  leave  firft  obtained,  took . 
'the  honcft  and  peaceable  mode  of  making  pur- 
chafes  of  then)  as  the  colony  extended  ;  by  which 
Ijudicious  procedure  the  colony  of  Pennfylvania 
[enjoyed   the   greateft  of  all  bleflings.  Peace  ;— 
while  her  fifter  colonics  were  (with  fome  exccp- 
Itions)  generally  engaged  in  wars, — In  many  of. 
iwhich,  the  greateft  of  barbarities  were  exercifed. 
ion  the  unhappy  vi(ftims  who  were  fo  unfortu- 
jnate  as  to  be  taken,  too  fliocking  to  relate  !   and. 
for  more  particulars  niuft  refer  the  reader  to  the 
hiftory  of  the  times. — As  the  colonies  increafed, 
it  had  a  tendency  to  raife  the   mother  country,, 
Englftnd^  iiito  iniportance  in  the  eyes  of  Europe. 
It  is  a  well  known  facf,  that  the  French  had  here 
to  the  northward  extenfive  colonies,  and  it  is  well 
known,  the  French  and  I'.ngiiih  have  for  centu- 
ries paft,  been  rival  nations. —  ihe  incroachment 
of  the  French  on  the  colonies,  after  the  peace  of 
Aix  Lachaple  in  1748,  laid  the  foundation  of  the 
war  of  1 756,— The  unparraiicd  lucceis  of  the  Eng- 

lifh, 


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C    8     ] 

lifti,  \n  every  quarter  of  the  world,  and  more  par- 
ticularly in  America,  where  the  lives  and  fortunes 
of  the  then  colonids  were  devoted  to  their  then 
mother  country,  whofe  councils  were  under  the 
dircdion  of  fpirited  and  upright  ftatefmen,  which 
terminated  in  the  peace  of  1762,  in  which  the 
Britiih  became  fole  niiftrcfs  of  this  vaft  Northern 
Continent  ; — By  that  meani  an  univerfal  peace 
with  the  Indians  or  Savages,  (fo  called)  took  place, 
and  which  in  my  opinion  fully  compleats  the 
enigma,  contained  in  the  hrd  line  of  Merlin's 
prediclion. — And  now  with  painful  fenfations  I 
proceed  in  order  to  devclope  the  fecond.  The 
prefent  ill-fated  Monarch  of  Britain,  when  he 
mounted  the  throne  of  his  grandfather, was  dread- 
ed -abroad  and  beloved  at  home  ;  and  in  his  firfl 
fpeech  to  his  parliament,  boafted  of  his  being 
born  a  Britton,  and  gloried  in  the  name  ;— how 
long  he  kept  his  word,  let  the  impartial  world 
judge.  Having  for  his  preceptor  a  haughty  im- 
perious Jacobite,  who  was  foon  noticed  with  an 
important  birth  in  the  adminiftration.  The  na- 
tion foon  felt  the  fatal  efFefts  thereof  in  the  refig- 
nation  of  that  great  and  upright  flatefman,  the 
the  Hon.  William  Pitt,  and  others  in  whofe  ad- 
miniilration  the  arms  of  the  Britiih  nation  were 
carried  to  the  higheft  pitch  of  human  glory.  Soon 
after  the  peace  of  1 762,  fatal  for  my  native  coun- 
try, their  councils  were  then  in  the  hands  of  men 
inimical  to  the  liberties  of  their  fellow  fubje^ts. 
The  confequence  was  the  adoption  of  meafures 
that  infringed  on  the  liberiies  of  Englifhmen  j 
which  threw  the  Britifh  nation  into  diforder — 
and  with  the  affiftance  of  a  venal  parliament,  en- 
acted lav  for  a  permanent  revenue,  to  be  difpofed 
of  at  the  pleasure  of  the  crown,  independent  of 

the 


.^ 


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mmtma 


ijitiiMMBiiitrMiiiiiiniii^t  I  :j)i»Mift'Mca"> 


_  ..    .   r  9  T   . 

ie  colonial  Icglflatures  ; — and  as  was  natural  to 

:pcft,  ran  like  wild  fire  from  one  end  to  the 

^ther  of  this  vaft  Northern  Continent,  and  roufed 

le  peaceable,  loyal,  but  fpiritcd  Americans,  who 

one  man,  felt  indignant  on  this  open  violation 

their  liberties.     If  my  memory  does  not  fail 

le,  the  omnipotence  of  the  Britiih  Parliament 

ras  firft  called  in  qucftion  in  the  hou-^e  of  Bur- 

:fes  in  that  highly  favored  fpot  of  heaven,  r/>g/«/Vi 

■But  as  I  would  not  wifh  to  defcend  too  f;ir  into 

irticulars,  on  a  prefumption  that  the  hiftory  of 

le  times  are  in  the  hands  of  mod  of  the  citizens  ; 

it  it  fuffice  when  I  fay  that  prtv'ious  to  the  re- 

;al  of  that  deteflable  Stampt  yicl,  that  in  full 

irliament  they  declared  that  t'icy  had,  and  ever 

id  a  right  to  tax  the  unreprefented  colonies  of 

Lmerica,  In  all  cafes  whatever. — I  appeal  to  your 

indor  and  good  judgment  to  determine  whether 

was  not  in  the  fuprcme  fenfe  of  the  word,  a  fata! 

iab  into  the  very   vitals  of  our  then  liberties  ; 

for  my  own   individual  part,  I  conftrue   this 

lemorable  epoch  to  be  a  fulfillment  of  the  fccond 

ine  in  the  firft  fection.    ,  <  .  » 


2d. 


« 


When  the  Cock  jhall  woo  the  Dove, 
"  The  Mother  the  Child  Jhall  ceafe  to  love,'* 

After  paffing  of  the  declaratory  aA,  in  confe- 
luence  of  the  univerfal  abhorrence  with  which 
le  ftampt  Ad  was  held  at  the  hands  of  the  then 
)lonifts — and  at  th^hands  of  the  majefty  of  the 
jople,  the  ftampt  agents  were  not  permitted  to 
|d.  It  was  vainly  imagined  by  fome,  the  Britiih 
Idminiflration  would  have  let  the  matter  have 
felled  there,  as  the  injuries  and  grievances  of  the 
tolouifls  were  warmly  efpoufed  by  the  genuine 

friends 


i 


I- 


friends  of  colonial  and  Englifti  Liberties,  witli  a 
Pitt  and  Burke  at  their  head  in  Europe  ;  whilft 
the  then  American  patriots  exhaufted  language 
to  fubftantiate  the  juftnefs  and  reafonablenefs  of 
their  claims  : — but  alas,  to  none  effect ;  intoxi- 
cated with  their  felf  omnipotence  under  the  idea 
of  the  regulations  of  commerce,  an  indireft  tax 
was  laid  on  the  Americans  for  the  purpofes  of  a 
permanent  revenue,  at  thedifpofal  of  the  crown, 
who  in  order  to  ftrengthen  the  arm  of  govern- 
ment, made  the  high  offices  of  government  inde- 
pendent of  the  grants  heretofore  made  them  by 
the  colonial  houfes  of  Affembly, — which  had  a 
tendency  to  expand  the  facred  flame  of  liberty, 
through  this  vaft  northern  continent.  In  this 
very  interefting  peripd  the  French  had  their 
emiffaries  incog,  in  order  to  found  the  difpofition 
of  the  Americans  ;  viewing  I  conclude,  that  the 
Britiih  colonics  were  to  Britain  as  the  /jair  was 
to  Sampfonjof  old. — I  am  thus  induced  to  con- 
clude this  was  the  cafe,  as  I  well  remember  the 
then  Continental  Congrefs  in  fome  of  their  ad- 
dreffes,  held  out  this  general  idea,  that  foreign 
aid  was  not  unattainable,  if  imperious  ncceflity 
Ihould  eventually  drive  them  to  arms,  to  defend 
their  liberties  and  every  thing  dear  unto  them. 
Hence  in  my  opinion  this  feclion  alludes  to  that 
interefting  period.  -    ,  ,   4, 

"  When  men  like  moles  work  under  ground, 
"  The  Lion  a  Virgin  iruejhall  wound,** 
I  prefume  it  is  a  well  known  fact,  that  the  Bri- 
tifti  fecret  fervice  money  granted  by  parliament, 
is  the  privy  purfe  of  the  premier  ;  through  which 
means  I  humbly  conceive  on  the  great  fcale  to  be 
the  corrupt  fountain  from  whence  proceed  a  great 

part 


)art  of  the  numan  miferies,  with  which  the  great 
Family  of  mankind  has  for  niany  years  paft  been 
ifflicted.  It  was  an  obiervation  of  that  arch  trai- 
tor  to  Englifh  liberties,  fir  Robert  Walpole,  that 
ivery  man  had^his  price  ;  it  was  verified  at  this 
time  ^^  hen  the  difputes  were  warpt  up  to  an  a- 
larming  pitch  between  the  then  mother  country 
md  their  then  colonies  ;  one  afferted  the  right 
)f  taxation,  the  other  denied  it,  in  confcquence 
)f  their  being  unreprefented  ;  and  that  repre- 
tentatiofl  and  taxation  went  hand  in  hand  togeth- 
er.    It  is  well  known  that  the  adminiflration  of 

Britain  frequently  carry  their  infernal  purpofes 
fnto  tffeft  by  bribery  and  corruption  ;  and  at  that 
eventful  moment  they  feleded  as  inftruments  in 

laflachufetts,  a  Hutchinfon  and  an  Oliver,  of  in- 
famous memory  j^^Thefe  inbred,  hypocritical 
[ngrates,  kept  up  a  fecret  correfpondence  with 
their  friends  in  England,  who  were  hofiile  to  Bri- 
tiih  as  well  as  American  liberties.  Thefe  infuri- 
ited  fons  of  an  evil  genii,  adhering  to  their  ad- 
dce,  ftrcngthened  the  arm  of  violence  by  fending 

lercenary  troops  in  order  to  enforce  their  unjull 
md  imperious  edids.     But  mark  with  attention, 

ath  grateful  acknowledgments  the  kind  interpo- 
ption  of  the  Deity  in  favor  of  injured  innocence, 
|n  the  feledion  of  a  Hancock,  an  *Adams,  and  a 
''arren,  with  a  goodly  number  of  diflinguiihed 
)atriots  at  Bofton,  (which  at  the  moment  was 
uonfidered  by  the  then  venal  Britifh  miniftry  and 
their  fatellites  this  fide  of  the  Atlantic,  to  be  the 
lot  bed  of  fedition)  through  whofe  inftrumental- 
(ty  were  obtained  the  letters  above  alluded  to, 

rhxch  were  laid  before  the  then  Maflachufetts  af- 
fembly  ;  and  (hocking  to  relate,  they  ftrongly 
recommended  ^n  abridgement  of  what  was  then 

•  The  Hon.  S.  Adami.  •  Called 


'M 


BIMMNl 


ft; 


If 


C    «2   ] 

called  Englilli  liberties.  In  order  to  avoid  pro-l 
lexity,  I  muft  beg  leave  to  refer  you  to  the  hif-l 
tory  of  the  day  for ,  particulars  ;— Suffice  thenj 
when  I  fay  it  finally  terminated  in  the  battle  atl 
Lexington,  Anno,  1775,  and  which  in  my  opinJ 
.  ion  compleats  the  fulfillment  of  the  predidlion  ifl| 
the  third  fedion. 

4th.    -^"  ••'" 

*'  Wjen  the  Cock  and  Dove  the  Lion  Jhall  fighu 
"  The  Lionjhall  crouch  beneath  their  mght** 
Previous  teethe  commencement  of  houilities  atl 
^Lexington,  Anno  1775,  the  then  general  congrefsJ 
ufed  every  exertion  within  the  limits  of  humanl 
wifdom   to  prefcribe  (unlefs  they  had  laid  profJ 
trate  at  the  fiirine  of  defpotifm  every  thing  that! 
could  endear  life,)  in  order  to  prevent  a  dimnionl 
between  the  two  countries,  they  in  the  moft  fub-i 
miffive   manner  implored   the  interpofition  of| 
their  then  Sovereign,  but  to  no  eflTect, — they  re^ 
monflrated  to  their  then  fellow-fubje<^s  the  fatalj 
efiecb  that  would  accrue  to  both  countries,  butl 
all  to  no  purpofe.     In  the  interim  they  were  not] 
idle  to  ad  fully  up  to  the  iirft  law  of  nature  inj 
order  to  prepare  for  the  worft, — -fo  that,  foon  af-j 
ter  the  attempting  to  deftroy  the  public  ftores  atj 
Concord,  the  Britifli  were  cocked  up  in  Bofton ; 
by  whom,  not  by  mercenary  troops,  but  the  Lords 
of  the  foil ;  and  being  defirous  of  getting  a  littlel 
more  elbow  room,  they  made  an  attempt  to  obj 
tain  it  ;  but  the  reception  they  met  with  at  Bun-! 
lcer*s  Hill,  made  them  snore  circumfped,  as  by| 
fad  experience  they  then  found,  that  they  had  t( 
combat  with  a  People  that  were  not  to  be  trifled  I 
with.     As  it  is  not  my  intention  to  give  you  tool 
lengthy  a  detail,  on  a  prefumption  the  hiflory  ofj 
the  times  is  not  fcarce,— fuflice  it  then  when  II 

fay 


^. 


MM 


t    «3    3       V  -„:..■: 

r,  tliat  after  having  to  encoiintfer  witli  tiunief- 
lous  foes  without,  confiding  of  Britifti,  HelTian,  ' 
iWaldedters  and  firitiih  favage  allies,  &c.  likywife^ 
hoards  of  fecret  enemies  within,  and  repeatedly 
^receiving  a  fpecimon  of  Britiih  ^/tf;?;^^^,  in  their 
rantonly  firing  whole  towns  at  times  over  our 
l^heads.  In  fpite  of  all  oppofition  the  avenger  of 
rrongs  fo  ordered  it,  as  to  enable  us  to  capture  a 
rhole  fidtifli  army  under  bluftering  Burgoyne, 
[Anno,  1 777.  This  truly  interefting  event  in  my 
reak  apprehenfion  had  a  tendency  to  raife  the 
[Americans  into  importance  in  the  eyes  of  £u- 
[rope,  for  it  is  worthy  of  notice  that  the  next 
rear,  France  acknowledged  Apnerican  Independ- 
ice,  and  became  the  ally  of  United  America  ; 
rhofe  united  efforts  in  conjunftion  of  other 
riendly  powers,  compelled  the  BritiOi  to  make 
rncceffity  a  virtue,  in  diflblving  the  political  union, 
[in  the  peace  of  1783,  in  which  the  13  Atlantic 
[States  were  acknowledged  as  Free^  Sovereign  and 
'tdependent,  and  in  my  opinion  deveiopes  the 
migma  of  the  4th  feftion ;— and  here  for  a  mo- 
lent  the  firft  ad  of  this  dramatic  tragedy  muft 
id. 

"  When  the  cockjhali  guard  ihe  edglt^is  neji^ 
**  Thejiars  jball  all  rife  in  the  weji." 
During  the  American  Revolutionary  War— 
their  potent  ally  the  French  Monarch  fent  over 
to  the  ai&ftance  of  the  Americans  a  powerful 
leet,  and  a  body  of  land  forces  ;  in  which  united, 
they  weakened  the  power  of  Britain  much,  par- 
ticulariy  the  capture  of  Lord  Cornwallis,  in  Vir- 
ginia, with  his  whole  army.     I  have  heard  gen« 
lemen  of  acute  and  deep  penetration,  make  their 
>bJG;rvations,  that  the  advantages  the  officers  and 
a  foldicw 


m 


4 


wppp 


'^V; 


^A 


'^' 


t  '4  ] 
foldiers  in  the  land  as  well  as  the  marine  fervicc, 
>  gave  them  a  fair  chance  to  inveftigate  the  nature 
of  the  difpute  between  the  Americans  and  the  £n- 
glifh  J — and  it  ever  appeared  unto  me  they  fucked 
as  the  babe  at  the  breaft,  from  the  Americans, 
their  ideas  of  civil  and  relieious  liberty. — For  it 
is  worthy  of  remark,  that  K>on  after  their  return 
to  Europe  from  America,  after  the  peace  of 
1783,  the  feeds  of  the  Revolution  began  to 
iprout,  and  for  a  time  flouriihed,  until  it  was  en- 
deavoured to  be  Cut  In  the  bud,  by  the  coalefced 
powers,  enemies  to  civil  and  religious  liberty— 
and  which  compelled  the  afierter^  of  the  rights 
of  human  nature  to  have  recourfe  to  arms.?— 
The  Au^iaji  Flanders  was  early  in  the  conteft 
the  theatre  of  war  ^  and  it  is  well  worthy  of  re- 
mark, that  the  fsimous  Charles  the  fifth,  emperpr 
of  Germany,  ScCo  was  the  fole  heir  of  the  ancig^t 
house  of  Burgundy,  in  the  right  of  his  mothpr, 
who  brought  with  her  the  fovereignty  of  Flan- 
ders into  the  family — He  added  it  as  an  appen- 
dage to  the  German  Imperial  Eagle.  The  impor* 
tance  of  the  country  is  very  great,  and  France  in 
confequence  of  her  being  in  poiTeflion,  could. ex- 
tend her  maritime  influence,  fo  as  to  annoy  the 
commerce  of  Britain,  and  prevent  Aufiria  from 
being  a  maritime  power,  Thefe  weighty  confid- 
ertions  on  the  oppoilte  ildes,  was  the  caufe  of 
the  very  many  bloody  battles/ought  in  that  coun- 
try, which  muft  be  frelh  in  the  memory  of  no 
inconfiderable  number  ;-^But  as  I  mufl  be  brief, 
in  order  to  avoi4  prolixity — fu0ice  when  I  fay 
that  the  wholefome  Aouriihment  of  the  mind, 
they  were  furniihed  with,  under  the  American 
fitars.  Thefe  faithful  pupils,  like  robuil  foldiers/ 
they  went  on  to  conquer,  and  are  to  this  day  in 
polleifion  of  Auflrian  Flanders-^-the  neil  of  the 

.   ,  Imperial 


\     .C  '5  I     ■   '  '-■':■■■ 

JmpeVial  Auftrian  Eagle.  So  that  I  am  clearly  c£ 
opinion  that  the  data  and  fpot  fairly  develope* 
the  predidion,  as  corrtaincd  in  the  fifth  fedion« 

6th. 
^'  Whenpoipi  above  the  clouds  Jhall  fa'tU 
"  ne  lion' strength  Jhall  furely  fail,** 

A  Ihip  is  well  known  to  be  a  large  hollo\r 
f)uilding  with  decks — made  to  pafs  over  the  fea 
with  fails — by  which  means  a  communication  is 
kept  up  between  the  moft  diflant  regions  j  and 
through  the  means  of  an  open  juftifiable  fyftem  of 
commerce  the  moft  folid  advantages  are  derived 
to  fociety  in  the  rapid  difFufion  of  light,  and  by 
the  exchange  of  the  productions  and  manufiic- 
tures  of  the  moft  diftant  cHmtfs-,-  g;ive*  employ  ta 
millioJll  of  the  induftrious  part  of  the  commu- 
tixty.  But  thefe  cannot  be  the  (hips  alluded  to,  as 
it  is  not  poiUble  in  the  nature  of  things  to  make 
ufe  of  them  out  of  their  natural  element ; — and 
here  I  think  it  might  with  propriety  defcrve  your 
particular  notice,  that  nearly  about  the  time  of 
the  commencement  of  the  French  Revolution, 
that  fuch  was  the  fovereign  will  and  pleafure  of 
Heaven,  as  to  permit  the  invention  of  baloons  to 
take  plade  ^-^and  admitting  I  am  not  mifinform- 
cd,  a  celebrated  gentleman  of  the  faculty  now 
living  in  Bofton,  took  a  trip  acrofs  the  ftreights 
of  Dover,  a:iJ  was  landed  in  fafety  in  France  ; 
and  which  I  prefume  muft  be  the  fliips  alluded  to, 
— And  now  let  us  notice  the  ufe  the  French  made 
of  them, — admitting  my  information  is  correct^ 
early  in  the  conteft  which  was  carried  on  be- 
tween the  French  Republic  and  the  coalefced 
powers,  they  had  men  in  the  cars  underneath  the 
baloons,  who  gave  the  fignal  from  above,  of  the: 

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<Ainderilood  that  the  French  obtained  many  fignal 
victories  in  Flanders  y  atid  notwithftanding  the 
immenfe  treafures  expended  by  Britain  in  order 
to  keep  the  flames  of  war  alive — fuch  was  th*? 
fovereign  pleafure  of  that  Being,  that  cannot  ia 
the  nature  of  things  do  wrong,  fo  to  order,  that 
the  Auftrians  were  under  the  imperious  ncceflity 
to  cede  in  full  fovereignty  the  whole  of  Auftrian 
Flanders  to  the  French.  Ever  lince  that  event-, 
ful  period,  the  power  of  Britain  has  been  rapidly 
on  the  decline,  on  the  continent  of  Europe — and 
of  courfe  compleats  the  prediction  contained  in 
the  fixth  feclion.  •   ,         , 

7th. 
"  W/x?:  Nt'i'f  fines  back  with  Stripes  is  red^ 
^^  The  fukh  Lion  Jhall  hide  his  head,*^ 
Neptune  aiid  the  Lion  I  conceive  to  be  fynon- 
imous  terms,  by  alluding  to  one  and  the  fame 
thing  J  for  it  is  well  known  that  the  Lion  is  an 
emblem  of  Britain,  and  Neptune  was  confidered 
as  the  Titular  God  of  the  ancients  of  the  fca ; 
and  it  is  too  well  khown  that  Britain  has  arro- 
gated to  herfelf  the  fovereignty  of  the  Ocean,  and 
has  carried  her  unjuft  and  ufurped  power  to 
intolerable  lengths,  particularly  of  bte.  In  no- 
ticing this  fubjed,  1  would  wifli  to  be  underftood 
that  it  is  in  confequence  of  what  I  have  feen  in 
the  public  prints  and  what  has  been  related  to  me 
by  gentlemen  that  have  fufFered  in  their  proper- 
ty, as  well  as  many  reprefentations  made  by  them 
who  have  been  fo  fortunate  as  to  efcape  from 
what  they  confidered  to  be  71  floating  hell,  a  Britijh 
Jhip  of  War  ;  in  robbing  them  of  their  liberties 
and  compelling  them  to  help  to  carry  into  effe<^ 
their  fanguinary  and  knaviih  plans,  to  murder 

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and  plunder  friends  as  well  as  the  nations  withi: 
which  they  are  at  open  war.      The  American 
commerce  is  well  kno^n  to  have  fufFered  feverely 
in  the  prefent  conteil  between  England  and  the 
belligerent  powers,  which  are  now  at  war  on  the 
tnoji  frivolous pretencCi     Our  fliips  while  in  purfuit 
of  Jawful  commerce,  have  been  feized  by  this  law- 
lefs  banditti  and  fent  into  their  ports  for  what 
they  call  adjudication  ;  and  admitting  we  are  fo' 
lucky  as  to  get  liberated,  the  long  detention,  and 
the  heavy  expences   attending  thefe  fham  trials,,, 
have  deftroyed  the  faireft  profpeds,  to  the  great 
injury  and  undoubtedly  the  utter  ruin   of  many 
an  honefl  and  induilrious  citizen  :  fo  that  admit- 
ting every  crime  to  be  a  ftripe  in  Neptune's  back,, 
it  of  courfe  is  well  filled;     However,   their  accu- 
mulated crimes  have  warp'd  up  the  public  indig- 
nation, and  to  be  or  not   to  be,  will  foon  be  the- 
queftion. — I  flull  now  notice  the  precarious  fitu» 
ation  to  which  Britain  has  plunged  herfelf  into,, 
by  interfering  with  her  neighbors  immediate  couf 
cerns  :  At   the  time  the  French  began  a  reform 
in  their  government,  the  Englifti  commercial  flag, 
was  feen  flying  in  every  part  of  the  habit  able  globe, 
their  fliips  freighted  with  their  manufadures,  and 
in  return  were  freighted  back  with  raw  materials, 
which  undoubtedly  gave  bread  to  thoufands  and. 
perhaps  millions  of  their  induflrious  poor.     But 
alas,   the   contraft  !    look  over  the  map  of  the 
world  and  you  will  find- from  the  mouth  of  the- 
Elbe  to  the  north  of  Portugal^  every  port  hoftile: 
to  the  introduftion  of  the  articles  of  their  manu- 
factures ;    from  the  fouth    of  Portugal   up  the* 
Mediterranean,  round  the  boot  of  Italy  into  the. 
Adriatic  fea,  much  in  the  fame  fituation  ;  their- 
trade  in  the  Levant  to  appearance  ruined,  andi 
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their  trade  in  the  Baltic  fea,  in  a  critical  fituation, 
which  leads  me  to  conclude  that  the  day  we  now 
live  in,  the  7th  fedion  of  this  lingular  prediction 
is  alluded  to. 

■"  ^^^>  -^.  8th.  '■'"-*^^''^-  —  '  ■  — 
When /even  and  fixjhall  make  but  one-^ 
The  Lion's  might Jhall  be  undone**  •  '  ' 
"We  very  well  remember,  that  after  our  ftrug- 
gles  in  the  revolutionary  war,  that  the  thirteen 
Atlantic  States,  were,  in  the  peace  of  1783,  ac- 
knowledged on  the  part  of  Britain,  as  free,  fover- 
cign  and  independent ; — as  particularly  mention- 
ed in  the  articles  of  the  treaty,  with  an  extent  of 
territory  fcarcely  to  be  equalled  by  any  nation  on 
the  face  of  the  globe.  The  want  of  a  federal 
head,  in  order  more  efFeftually  to  unite  as  one, 
was  early  felt  to  be  efl'ential  for  the  prefervation 
of  the  whoL  ;  otherways  it  was  to  be  feared  we 
fhould  have  become  a  prey  to  our  ambitious  and 
rcftlefs  neighbors  ;  and  which  laid  the  founda- 
tion of  our  prefent  General  Government :  If  its 
firft  and  leading  principles  had  been  ftridly  ad- 
hered to,  in  my  humble  opinion  the  citizens  of 
the  United  States  would  have  been  the  happieft 
people  that  exift  on  the  face  of  the  globe.  As 
every  refource  within  itfelf  (if  rightly  improved,) 
is  a  ftate  of  independence,  and  tne  rapid  and  un- 
precedented population  of  our  country,  convinces 
mc  that  we  have  nothing  to  dread  from  any  pow- 
er, that  may  be  difpolcd  to  try  the  length  of 
fwords  on  the  land  ;  and  probably  if  put  to  our 
trumps,  another  mufqueto  fleet*  might  be  fixed 
out  and  be  equally  fuccefsful  as  the  one  at  Louif- 
burgh.  Anno,  1745.     But  to  return— (bon  after 

the 

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jtftc  Federal  Government  was  organized  and  be* 
gan  to  operate,  unfortunately  for  this  country, 
there  were  two  powerful  parties  in  oppofition  ; 
and  here  you  will  permit  me  to  remind  you,  that 
[previous  to  the  commencement  of  hoftilitics,  An- 
[no,  I  yys^  through  thechannel  of  refolutions,  they 
)lcdgcd  to  each  other  their  facred  honor  to  fup- 
)ort  the  common  caufe  with  their  lives  and  for- 
tunes.     The  General  Congrefs  on  this  bottom' 
ifl'ued  paper  bills  of  credit,  which  for  a  while  an- 
fwered  a  good  purpofe  :  but  the  Britiih  at  New- 
^ork  emitted  immenfe  fums  of  counterfeit  paper- 
loney,  and  with  the  ailiftancc  of  their  friends, . 
[the  fecret  enemies  of  our  country)  got   it  into 
:irculation,  which  embarraffed  much  the  general  < 
:ongrefs  ;  and  felf  intereft   having  expelled  the 
pofeffion  of  public  virtue  from  the  minds  of  fo* 
lany  native  Americans^  who  were  lavifh  at  the 
Irft  onfct,  had  nearly  ruined  the  caufe.     The  ge- 
leral  congrcfe  were  not  wanting  rn  their  duty  to- 
remind  their  conftituents  of  the  fatal  precipice  to 
rhich  they  were  haftening  ;  but  their  unremitted . 
efforts  to  fave  their  finking  country  were  crown- 
id  with  fuccefs,   in   effecting  loans  of  the  folid 
:oin  and  other  articles,  effential  to  their  very  ex- 
lence  as  a  nation  ;    which  under  providence.  Is 
ittribute  to  be  the  means  of  our   political  falva- 
tion.     But  notwithftanding,  imperious  neceffity 
It  the  final  iffue  of  the  revolutionary  war,  com- 
)clled  our  government  to  make  payment  to  the 
hardy  and  trufty  foldiery  in  the  final  certificates 
)f  their  agent,   who  was  authoriled  to  liquidate 
the  public  accounts  ; — the  want  of  power  in  the 
[general  congrefe  to  make   and  enforce  taxes  lor 
[their  payment,  bore  hard  on  the  public  creditors, 
[and  which  opened  a  door  for  a  hoft  of  hawkers, 

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fiarpers,  and  fwindlers,  to  become  fpeculators  ial 
the  public  fecurities ;  many  of  whom  undoubtcd-l 
ly  were  from  the  dregs  of  fociety,  who  were  fol 
modeft  as  to  purchafe  m  at  about  one  eighth  of  thel 
value  ; — the   difcerning  and  influential  amongfll 
this  medley  group  of  devotees  at  the  fhrine  ofl 
mammon,  were    adive   to  get    themfelves  andl 
friends  elected  as  our  fervants  ;  and  how  far  they| 
were  faithful,,  let   t*:e  impartial  judge  for  them, 
felves, — ^fufike  when  I  fay  that   they  eventually! 
£&ddled  on   you»  that   national  curfe,  a  national! 
debt — in  the  afTumption  and  funding  the  abovel 
alluded  to  fecurities,  (in  preference  to  their  being| 
eS:tingui{hed  by  the  fale  of  the  public  lands  at 
fair  price)  which  alarmed  I  prefume.  many  of  the| 
virtuous   Republicans ;  but  when  this  felf  cre- 
ated new  order  of  flatefmen,  the  paper  nabobs ^  hadl 
got  a  permanent  footing  as  they  vamly  imagined,] 
under  the  maik  of  an  efHcient  government,  the 
cloven  foot  of  defpotifm  foon  began  to  ihew  it 
felf;  which  brought   forward  tlie  invulnerablcl 
pen  of  Old  South,  in  the  Independent  Chronicle,! 
and  fome  able  writers  in  the  Salem  RegHler  andj 
other  Republican  papers,  in  defence  of  your  tot- 
tering liberties  y  and  here  you  will  permit  me  to 
remark,  that  Etna,  in  the  Ifland  of  Sicily,  wasl 
confidered  by  the  ancients  as  the  mouth  of  HellJ 
in  confequence  of  the  deftrudive  lava  it  occafion- 
ally  emitted.;  but  the  high.feafoned  fcribblers  inl 
many  of  the  anti-republican  papers,, very,  far  ex-[ 
ceeded  Mount  Etna,  for  they  were  inceflantlyl 
emitting  every  fpecies  of  fcurrility  againft  ourl 
friends  who  were  honeft  and  bold  enough  to  ftem] 
t^e  torrent,  and  they  were  not  backward  to  fab- 
ricate and  propagate  falfe  and  idle  ftories,  in  or-l 
der  to  cloke  the  deadly  plaa  of  the  introduAioii| 

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a  large  (landing  army  ;  and  even  (bme  of  tKc 
Wefts  of  the  altar,  were  not  backward  to  help  to 
;ttcr  you  with  the  iron  chains  of  dcfpotifin,  as  a 
Ttain  well  known  Rev'd  Don,  was  ailiduous  to 
promulgate  his  bug  bear  effays  on  the  illuminati, 
therein  a  truly  refpeftable  order  were  implicated 
■but  Lihall  forbear  to  recapitulate  the  many  in-*^ 
[ovations  on  your  liberties,   and  the  tyrannical     ^ 
^s  paiTed  in  the  late  adminiftration,  as  Iprefume 
ley  muft  be  frefh  in  your  memories  :  Suffice 
icn  when  I  fay  that  ever  fince  the  prefent  mild 
id  judicious  order  of  things  took  place,  thefer- 
ple  editors  of  the  oppofition   papers  have  been 
leming  with  violent   inve<flives  againft  thofe,. 
rho   I  cannot   but  think,  their  greateft  glory 
rould  be  to  render  them  every  poffible  good  ;; 
lich  undoubtedly  muft  make  fuch  inramous 
ribblers  appear  ridiculous  in  the  eftimatioii.  of 
>rcigners,  while  that  it  has  a  tendency  to  inner-- 
ite  the  arm  of  government,  when  in  purfuit  of 
ir  real  interefts  ;— on  the  other  hand,  every  aft 
the  oppofers  of  our  lawful  commerce  has  been 
thefe  anti- republicans  (with  few  exceptions); 
Ltoled  to  th'  Ities.    The  fuUnefs  of  time  has  ar- 
[ved,  and  the  fcales  have  fallen  from  the  hereto-- 
>re  deluded  but  honeft  citizens.     The  late  vio* 
It  attack  of  the  Britifh  ihip  of  war  the  Leopard,, 
the  United  States  £hip  of  war  the  Chefapeake, 
is  had  the  happy  tendency  to  unite  as  one  man, 
le  friends  of  American  liberty,  in  openly  and 
^anfully  bearing  an  honorable  teftimony  againft: 
le  recent  indignity  offered  our  national  flag ; 
^hich  in  my  opinion  compleats  the  firfl  line  of. 
ie  eighth   and  laft  fedion  of  this  remarkable; 
rediclion  of  Merlin's. — A   few  remarks  on  the- 
|con  d  line  and  then  I  have  done.    Admitting 

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any  confidence  can  be  placed  in  the  public  printd 
a  lively  reprefentation  of  the  wrongs  done  by  thcl 
Britiih  (hips  of  war,  has  been  nnade  by  the  £xe| 
cutive  of  the  Union  to  the  Britiih  government^ 
and  undoubtedly  an  unequivocal  explanation 
this  head,  as  well  as  fatisfa^ion  for  the  injuiivil 
done,  is  expeded ;  which  it  is  to  be  dcvoiitlyj 
hoped  on  the  part  of  the  Britiili,  will  be  accedei 
to  in  order  to  prevent  an  open  rupture,  whid 
would  be  dcftrudive  to  both  countries  y — But| 
admitting  for  a  moment  that  war  muft  be  the 
order  of  the  day — I  think  the  chances  muft  be 
much  againft  Britain,  for  the  following  reafons 
a  ruinous  national  debt,  their  commerce  curtailed 
in  Europe,  and  embarrafled  in  America,  the  pow] 
erful  enemies  flie  has  already  got  to  contend  witl 
that  if  imperious  neceflity  fliould  compel  the  Aj 
merican*  to  join  the  powerful  coalition,  I  muf 
Confefs  I  fee  nothing  to  prevent  the  finking  n| 
Britain  as  a  nation — fo  that  in  either  cafe,  I  con^ 
ceive  the  Lion's  power  to  be  at  an  end  5  whid 
compleats  the  fecond  and  lad  ad  of  this  dramat 
ic  tragedy,. 


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tht  Bnligbttntd  Citiunt  of  Port/mouth  and  «//eiuhere  •• — 

I  RtJptGtd  Eritiultt-'Cntk(i6tt\ng  it  a  crime  of  the  firft  magnitude  igalaft 
\t  majeft/  of,  Heaven  to  wiihnold  any  -information  calcul«ied  in  m^ 
binioo  to  make  my  Fellow-mortali  happy  while  fojourning  through  this 
jlderneft  world— are  the  Icadips  moiivci  for  my  introducing  j(in  the 
ird  edition  of  Merlin)  the  fotiowiitg  eztraA  oi  an  original  Letter 
»m  a  deccafed  friend,  for  your  iofpedioqa  JOS£PH  LEIGH. 

Ptrifrntufht  N.  B.  Ot&Ulf  1 8o  7— —J®. 

liAR  Sit»  Dimirarvt  24th  OOoher  \^q^^~.^^g. 

*'  Youft  letter  asd  aUb  the  Mewfpapcri  you  were  pltafed 
fend  me  I  received  rafe.  and  I  return  you  my  hearty  thanki 
the  (amt  i  and  I  thank  you  efpecially  for  your  aealoui 
[deavors  to  make  knotfji  the  Divine  and  Eternal  truths  (^ 
New  Church ;  I  cau  only  iliank  you,— but  the  Divina 
iman  will  give  you  your  reward  :•— Believe  me  my  dear  fir* 
fthing  would  have  alCM'ded  am  greater  pleaforc  than  your 
eable  letter, — We  mnft  look  to  the  Lord  for  patiedce  and 
Bverance,    the  time  will  come  on  this  carta  when  the 
Irines  of  the  NewCburdi  wiU  be  the  Glorf,  Honor  and 
ippinefs  of  everj  Aatiou  on  this  earth  ;  Yon  and  I  may 
m  be  in  eternity,  but  w«  can  die  in  the  comforting  reflee* 
^n,  that  when  in  thii  life,  we  did  our  h^,  to  make  known  tht 
church  of  the  LtMrd.     I  agree  entirely  with  you  that  the 
:cefi  of  the  French  Revolution  is  fweeptog  a  way  for  the 
|w  church  of  the  Divine  human,  by  demolilliing  the  powers 
Babylon  and  the  Dragon  ;  and  I  am  indeed  ^rpriled  that 
reat  Britain  hitherto  a  land  of  liberty,  fliould  fo  ftrenuouily 
[ive  againft  the  liberty  of  the  noble  French  nation.     For  I 
lieve  God  createcC  all  men  to  be  free,  and  the  happine/s  of 
ke  nation  can  never  depend  on  the  ilavery  and  oppreflion  of 
lother.     North  America  I  hope  will  Aowitfelf  to  be  that 
[tion,  which  after  obtaining  independence  and  liberty,  proved 
mankind  that  thefe  bfeiCngs  are  e^entially  ntctffdty  to  the 
[taining  of  a  dill  higher  aiid*more  important  blcffing>  name* 
the  nill  and  free  reception  of  genuine  truths  as  now  re- 
lied by  the  Lord  out  of  his  new  Heavens.    This  will  ;con* 
tute  the  happinefs  of  human  nature,  and  in  proportion  as 
is  new  Church ,  is  received,  I  fincerely  believe  wars  will 
ife,  and  mankind  will  live  in  peace  and  friendlliip  j  .aiid 
18  this  Mttth  will  become,  what  for  man^  ages  paft  it  has 
h  been,  the  kingdom  of  the  Lord  in  the  uUimates  of  ciea- 
^n.    WheMe-proceed  wars  but  from  that  pride,  ftlfifhnefs, 
id  love  of  dominion,  which  the  new  church  ifill  transform 
^o  the  love  of  God  and  the  love'  of  human  nature,  and  a 
ire  to  perform  good  ufes  to  all  men.        Toart,  l!fe,  J.  G.'l 
JIfr.  Joseph  LeigH|  Portfmmtht  N»  It» 


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Compofcd  by  a  Revolutionist  of  75. 

*^  Flat  juJiiti'Ji  mat  Ccclu^.u." 

COLUMBIA'S  Sons,  rnnfe  and  defend 
Your  yj,cr-<:/ riji  !««■.,  and  miv  contend 

With  ev'rv  manly  grace  ; 
J-ct  noi  your  Pi^edici-jj-jn  manes 
Se  difturb'd  by  Lyriutn's  p'.Jns, 

To  curft  their  daflard  race. 

OpfJreflion's  fons  in  blaze  cf  da/, 
2»rbft  C"wardly  have  dar'd  to  play 

Their  engines  of  perdition— 
But  let  them  know,  thro'  ev'ry  v?in 
'1  jur  crimfon  blood  flows  with  dildaio 

At  your  -A^^xxQV^d  ccndition. 

li  You  fliculd  uow  .ti'^n  ihi  Held, 
And  with  fuhmilfion  bafcly  yield 

To  fuch  impcrioui  bruttj  ; 
No  longer  may  you  ever  claim 
The  honor  of  Columbia's  name 

But  rank  with  Albwti\  dupe:. 

Freedom  (hall  yet  inhabit  here,* 
Our  manfions  free  from  fervilc  fear 

In  fpite  of  coiuard  clans^ 
And  to  the  world  we'll  make  it  knowr;. 
That  we  defpife  Britanniai'i  thronci 

And  all  infernal  plans. 

If  JEFFERSON  and  Congress  join, 
We  can  defeat  the  bafe  defign 

Of  villainous  ingrates  ; 
Then  let  us  arm  at  evVy  point. 
And  with  our  blood,  our  caufe  anoint, 

Andtiuft  to  GOD  cur  fAXis. 

*  Columbia. 


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